Re: [WBEL-users] Screwed by a CentOS4 install test

John Morris <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.whitebox.user
Organization Beauregard Parish Library
Message-ID <1145398307.4114.4.camel@mjolnir>
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:36, John Morris wrote:

> In the end you might be chasing the wrong culprit.  There were
> persistent reports that test releases of FC5 was borking older ext3
> filesystems, even ones not explicitly being requested to be mounted, by
> flipping on new filesystem features that are not backwards compatible.
> 
> Have been meaning to try a controlled experiment to find out if it a) it
> is true and b) if it persisted into the final FC5 release.

Replying to myself... found time to run a controlled experiment.  FC5 is
safe, it won't harm a WBEL3/RHEL3 install even if you have FC5 mount it
while running anaconda.  So that rules that out.

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